Category: Daily Life

Gregory “Buster” Coleman in his cap and gown. Each graduate of the Kennedy School of Government carried an inflatable globe. Gregory “Buster” Coleman is a cop who’s been through a lot. He was the Liberian National Police Commissioner during the Ebola outbreak. He and his men would wear protective equipment

A police officer inspects a fishing boat in Thailand. The U.S. State Department issued its annual Trafficking in Persons report on Thursday, and the big news is the status of Thailand. Thailand is now on the “Tier 2 Watch List” for countries that do not meet the minimum U.S. standards

Keyon Harrold performs at this year’s Melbourne International Jazz Festival. He’s the co-founder of “Compositions For A Cause.” “Running (Refugee Song)” was released this week in honor of World Refugee Day. It’s the first composition from a new venture called Compositions for a Cause, a collaboration of musicians Keyon Harrold

Demyte “Little Spot” was crowned the winner of Lithuania’s goat beauty contest. The contestants wear flowers in their hair. And ribbons. And brightly colored tops. They parade around. They’re judged. The winner gets a tiara, plus cakes, jars of honey and a coupon for a free haircut. Welcome to the

Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita, surrounded by dancers in traditional dress, celebrates the 30th anniversary of Djibouti’s independence. For many African nations, their independence is so recent that people still remember the day it happened. Here’s how the continent’s seven most recently independent countries, all of which have declared independence

These ants are some of the stars of the award-winning film Ant by Rustam Orifi. It isn’t easy to make an independent movie in Tajikistan. Especially not one that’s about ants, stars an ant and is shot primarily from the perspective of that ant. Rustam Orifi managed to do just

Frigatebirds have to find ways to stay aloft because they can’t land on the water. This bird was flying between the Galapagos islands of Santiago and Bartolome. Frigatebirds, seagoing fliers with a 6-foot wingspan, can stay aloft for weeks at a time, a new study has found. The results paint

Deko Abdi Ismal, 19, teaches at a school in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. The education and work experience that residents gain are a boon in the job market in Somalia. Ibrahim Mohamed’s baby boy is almost 4 months old, but Ibrahim and his wife, Amina, still haven’t agreed

A team of volunteers cooks for African migrants living at a camp in their town of Paso Canoas, Costa Rica. It’s her moral duty. That’s the belief of Debora Matamoros Jiménez, who leads a volunteer cooking crew that, for two months, has fed the hundreds of African migrants stranded in

Caitlin McConnico tweeted us this picture taken in early June while camping at Makgadikgadi Pans National Park in Botswana. What’s your night sky look like? For most of the world, it’s not a pretty sight. A new study has found that 80 percent of the world can’t see the stars

Markets

President Obama speaks at the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Concerns about a possible “Brexit” were floating in the air as British investors met with state economic teams at the two-day summit. If you’re on the economic development team for your state, you are happy — dancing-in-the-street

Treatments

When mental health professionals don’t take insurance, only the wealthy can afford their help. There’s something that really bothers Stanford psychiatry professor Keith Humphreys. When he thinks of all the years he has spent training the next generation of psychiatrists, the enormous investment in medical school and residency, he wants